Just joined Slalom (from Big 4) and I have a THREE hour in person interview tomorrow with the clients for my next project. Is this standard operating procedure? Never once did this before.

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Three hours seems long but yeah it’s very common to interview for a client before starting a project. I can count the times I didn’t on one hand.

I've heard of it before, but it's not very common. I wouldn't sweat it, sometimes clients are super picky about who is staffed. I've never seen anything bad happen if the client rejects you.

Agreed there isn’t really any blowback unless you were to somehow bomb like four in a row to the point you were completely unable to get staffed. Also based on S2’s response it seems to vary by market (like everything else at Slalom...). Very common in mine but i guess it’s not uniform

Id be willing to bet that the client will.ask you questions for 10 mins. The next 130 mins will be spent doing a kick off meeting

Out of curiousity, is it pronouced SLA-lum, or sla-LOME?

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I do the former

So does everyone i know

Just like Slalom skiing is pronounced guys

Warning: lighthearted sass incoming: If only there was some sort of online database of words and their meanings and how they’re pronounced. Or maybe a global winter sporting event where this was probably said 100x per day... 😉

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